Mette Ingvartsen (DK)

21 pornographies

In her choreography, the Danish artist Mette Ingvart­sen dissects pornography into its individual parts using narrative descriptions and performative dance elements: brutality, clini­cal precision, violence, and pain, but also parody, humour, and tension. In all of this, it becomes cle­ar how deeply rooted the male-­dominated culture of pornography is in our society and how strongly it coincides with power. Ingvartsen thus explores the closely interwoven rela­tionship between the power of lust and the lust for power. “21 pornographies” shows human abysses and taboos. Shouldn’t certain scenes be censored? What may sound daunting, however, also comes up with other impressions: seductive sceneries, imaginative sensations, rousingly harsh rhythms… and an irresis­tibly sweet temptation!

The production by Mette Ingvartsen is part of the series “The Red Pieces”. The theatre festival AUAWIR­LEBEN showed “69 positions” from this series in 2017 in Bern. In this series, Ingvartsen focuses on the na­ked body and questions the boundary between priva­te and public spaces.